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With Insteon down, possibly for good, what options do you have for your devices?

April 20, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel 133 Comments

This hasn't been a good week for the smart home as yet another connected device service seems to have disappeared. It appears anyone using Insteon products has faced a dead-end as the company's cloud service has gone silent. So too has the company up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: amazon alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Home, Home Assistant, HOOBS, Hubitat, hubs, Insteon, openhab, Samsung SmartThings, smart home

Can open-source smart home systems save your deprecated devices?

April 10, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Danny called in to our voicemail hotline with a very interesting question. He wants to know if platforms such as Home Assistant or OpenHAB could help support older smart devices that lose support from their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: APIs, Home Assistant, hubs, open source, openhab, smart home, SmartThings, Wink

Where have all the smart home hubs gone?

February 3, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham 17 Comments

This was going to be a post about the smart home options to buy after you ditch the Wink hub that has been down for the last few weeks, but it has since turned into a realization that there are no smart home hubs available on the market from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Amazon, Ezlo, Home Assistant, HomeBridge, Hubitat, openhab, SmartThings, Wink, z-wave

Why I’m pulling the plug on Wink

December 4, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 44 Comments

Over the last year or so, many of us have been wondering what’s going on with Wink. Version 2 of the smart home hub hasn’t seen many updates and I can’t remember the last time I heard about newly supported devices from Wink. Indeed, the most recent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon Echo Plus, Google Home, Home Assistant, hub, Hubitat, Insteon, openhab, samsung, smart home, SmartThings, Wink

IoT news of the week for April 19, 2019

April 19, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

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Alexa gets 2M ad-supported songs: The most commonly used smart speaker feature is listening to music, so it only makes sense that Amazon bring its Music service to Echo devices for free. And by free, I mean you won’t pay any fees but you will be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: alexa, Apple, Echo, Facebook, fitbit, Google Home, Home Assistant, LeGrand, linux foundation, Microsoft, MyFitnessPal, openhab, Philips Hue, RTOS

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